Athula Ginige

Director

a.ginige@uws.edu.au

Athula Ginige is the Professor of Information Technology at University of Western Sydney. He is also the Director of Advanced enterprise Information Management Systems (AeIMS ) research group. He graduated with B.Sc. first class honours from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He is now a fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society and a member of editorial board of the International Journal of Web Engineering. Athula has carried out extensive research in the areas of robotics, computer vision, image coding, multimedia systems, development of large scale Web based information systems, information structures for interactive flexible learning modules, new information retrieval strategies for the Web and, eTransformation strategies and supporting technologies for small to medium size enterprises (SMEs). He has also been involved in design and development of various web based information systems and eBusiness systems that are used by various commercial organisations today. He has over 80 Journal and Conference publications. He has given many invited talks, seminar presentations and tutorials at various local and international conferences on video coding, multimedia information systems, Web Engineering, Emerging Information Society and eBusiness. In 2001, together with a colleague he guest edited 2 special issues of IEEE Multimedia on Web Engineering. He has also served in many conference organization and program committees. In 2002 and 2003 he organised and chaired the Web Engineering workshop in conjunction with the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. He was the national president of the Australian Pattern recognition Society (APRS) from 1994 to 1995. He has also served on the editorial board of IEEE Multimedia. At present he is leading a project group looking at ways of eTransforming small to medium size enterprises in Western Sydney. As part of this project he has lead many research groups that have developed an eTransformation Methodology for small to medium size enterprises, CBEADS; a Component Based eApplication Development Shell and an eTransformation Road map that can be used to plan the eTransformation strategy.